Articles Written by:    BRAD STONE     

Lessons From the War Over Skype

The dust has settled, the ink on the deal has dried, and one of the biggest sideshows in Silicon Valley this year appears to be over. The litigation between eBay, the buyers of Skype and its original founders has been dropped, and the deal, which ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Skype,  Joost,  Google Inc.,  Association of National Advertisers

EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale

SAN FRANCISCO EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of the Skype online calling service. The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will drop their lawsuits against the company and a consortium of buyers whose bid to ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Janus Friis,  John Donahoe

Can Eventbrite Shine in Ticketmaster's World?

For big rock concerts and sporting events held in huge venues, Ticketmaster dominates the landscape. For the kind of event you might find promoted with a flyer on a telephone pole, there’s a budding startup called Eventbrite. The San Francisco company, ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Fox News Channel,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.,  New York Times Company

Amazon Video vs. Netflix: Which Will Prevail?

Which business model for watching movies online will be the winner? Paying upwards of $8 a month for unlimited and instant online access to an older catalog of films and TV shows from a company like Netflix? Or forking over $2 to $3 a film for access ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  TiVo Inc.,  Damon Darlin,  Time Warner Inc.,  Walt Disney Company

End to Fight Over Skype May Be Near

SAN FRANCISCO The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype appears to be nearing an end. A resolution of the litigation surrounding the service, currently owned by eBay, could be announced as soon as this week, according to ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Skype,  Joost,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Janus Friis

Amazon PayPhrase Tries to Make Paying Online Easier

Amazon.com is trying to take some pain out of the process of buying stuff online. I’m not sure that the new service it is introducing tonight, PayPhrase, accomplishes that, but it may be an important building block for the future of Amazon’s fledgling ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Amazon.com,  Facebook Inc.,  Damon Darlin,  Jeff Bezos,  Motorola, Inc.

Google Lifts the Curtains on its New Music Service

Google users who put the name of a song into the search engine will get, as the top result, information about the musician and an opportunity to stream the song from one of two services, Lala and MySpace Music. People who click on that link will, in ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wikipedia,  Facebook Inc.,  Damon Darlin,  Sony

GSI Buys Online Fashion Discounter

SAN FRANCISCO The idea of holding private Web sales of premium merchandise has gained another convert. GSI Commerce, which manages the Web sites for major retailers like ToysRUs.com and Zales, announced on Tuesday that it was buying Rue La La, a Boston ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: GSI Commerce, Inc.,  Prada,  Marc Jacobs

What Do You Think of Facebook's Latest Changes?

On Friday, Facebook began rolling out changes to its primary home page, which its 300 million members land on when they log on to the social network. Now, instead of the live feed of their friends’ status updates and activities, which had come to ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Amazon.com,  Lawrence Lessig,  Steve Lohr,  Henry Blodget

Netflix Movies Stream to Sony's PlayStation 3

Next month, the 9 million U.S. owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available to them: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix. The long-awaited announcement gives Netflix another distribution channel ...

From BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Reed Hastings,  European Commission,  Microsoft Corporation,  TiVo Inc.

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